Teenage Freedom In Cambodia

Name: Ung Pagnaroth
Class: C3
Essay Outline
Topic: Cambodia youth should have more personal freedom; similar to Western youth.
Introduction
Attention Getter: In Cambodia when people goes to 18 years old (teenager – that’s someone between 13 and 19. So, you nearly finished being a teenager at the age of 18) they have no freedom. They always stay under parent’s control. If parents tell to go to the left, you have to go to the left, or tell to go to the right, you have to go to the right. You must do it anyway. However, in western when they go to 18 years old, they have their own freedom, they can do whatever they want. Parents can only give them advice but they cannot tell them what to do or choose the way for them.
Thesis: All teenagers need

They always stay under parent’s control. If parents tell to go to the left, you have to go to the left, or tell to go to the right, you have to go to the right. You must do it anyway. However, in western when they go to 18 years old, they have their own freedom, they can do whatever they want. Parents can only give them advice but they cannot tell them what to do or choose the way for them. All teenagers need independence to do whatever they want because at this age, Scientist believes that those people are in stage of burning creative ideas and it’s really good for them to get involve more in society. Moreover, Youth have always attempted to distinguish themselves from the older generation. There are three main points to support Cambodian youth to have more personal freedom with concrete

According to youth in transition book “The Challenges of Generational Change in Asia” which is edited by Fay Gale and Stephanie Fatrey that proceeding of the 15th Biennial General Conference, the new space of technology allows young people to modify their identities and to create new and multiple virtual identities. Hence, they are the new generation that create new ideas for modernize countries, especially Cambodia a developing country, to become developed like Western. Due to that example above, it is important to give them freedom to involve in volunteerism or any events that they want because it’s better to go outside to see the world and gain more general knowledge, as well as getting to understand more about society. For example, YSEALI provides them the opportunity to seek for exchange program. Parents should give them the freedom and support them to join it because as we know, exchange program is the golden opportunity for Cambodia youth to experience outlier-shocked and mew standard of living in order to develop their countries. They can help improve the economy grow faster. As we see these days, Cambodian youth start to import stuffs from other countries, and they even do trading, Moreover, most of the boss of restaurants, pubs, or cafeteria in Cambodia nowadays are young people. “We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams who can die for those dreams” Jack Ma said. Thus parents should then freedom to fight